Texas Rebels--Elias by Linda Warren

Author:Linda Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The ride to the hospital was made in silence. Elias broke the speed limit but he didn’t care. He had to get to his mother. Every mile, he kept thinking it was all his fault.

Maribel sat on the passenger side and Chase and Grandpa were in the back seat. Maribel had his phone and was giving him updates.

“The ambulance just pulled into the ER and they’re unloading her,” Maribel read from Quincy’s text. “She still not conscious.”

“Tell him we’ll be there in less than five minutes.”

Elias pulled in to the parking lot with a lump in his throat. He found Falcon’s truck and parked beside it. He got out and grabbed Maribel’s hand and ran for the ER. Chase and Grandpa followed more slowly. Since his father’s death, he’d never needed anyone, but today he needed Maribel to get through this.

They went through the automatic glass doors and saw Falcon and Quincy standing to the left.

“What happened?” Elias asked.

From his brothers’ pale faces, he knew it was bad.

“We were in the office, just Mom and me,” Falcon said. “I told her we needed more help to get the hay in and she said to do whatever I wanted. Then she grabbed her chest and fell to the floor. It’s a sight I’ll never forget.” Falcon turned away and then turned back. “What the hell is taking so long?”

His other brothers came running in, dirty from the hay fields. “How’s Mom?” Egan asked.

“We don’t know,” Quincy said. “They’re working on her. The paramedic felt it was either a heart attack or a stroke. We just have to wait.”

His brothers milled around, waiting, but they were all glancing at him and he knew what they were thinking: It’s your fault. But no one said it out loud.

A nurse came up to them. “There’s a waiting room to the right,” she said and they all filed into the small room. Grandpa sank into a chair as white as Elias had ever seen him. Chase stayed close to Grandpa. Elias’s chest felt like a forty-pound bowling ball was sitting on it and he was having trouble breathing. He gripped Maribel’s hand tighter.

His brothers paced. Some sat and then they got back up again. They were all worried. A coldness settled over Elias and a chill touched his soul. How would he survive if something happened to his mother? There was no going back, though, and he had to face this head-on. He stood a little taller and a little bolder. His mom would want him to.

A doctor in scrubs came into the waiting room. “Rebel family?”

They all went to meet him.

The doctor raised an eyebrow. “You’re all with Kate Rebel?”

“We’re her sons,” Falcon said. “How’s our mom?”

Elias held his breath as he waited for the next words because he knew they would stay with him for the rest of his life.

“Your mom did not have a heart attack or a stroke. She had an anxiety attack and she’s resting comfortably now.”

Everyone sagged with relief.

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